Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley